Today — Wednesday February 25, 2009 — we’re digging out, cleaning up, sorting and sifting. It’s really not too huge of a job, but the more the merrier — especially when it comes to folding 40-foot tarps. Please drop by if you can. Pizza will be ordered.

The remaining LIGHTBAR events are well and truly cancelled, BUT we’d love to find someplace to have one last little bash on Saturday. My band never got to play, and I know everybody has these awesome gold outfits they want to wear …

WTF? Well, I knew there were problems. I’ve already had to fix several broken struts, and there were one or two near the top of the dome that I couldn’t reach to fix properly. Yesterday we had the heaviest rain and wind in a month. Did my baggy roof tarp begin to take on water, and grow heavy? Were the winds worse than I realized? I wonder if anybody else’s dome fell down last night.

Last Friday night, Portland’s awesome Midnight Mystery Ride left from Portland’s awesome (if I say so myself) LIGHTBAR at midnight, thus launching a mad weekend of gladiatory excellence known as Minibike Winter VI, brought to you by Portland’s awesome cult of speed, ZOOBOMB!

Portland is just awesome. This video gives you a taste of the whole weekend, with blue-drink action courtesy of master mixologist Matthew. Includes subtleties for the thinking impaired.

On Saturday LIGHTBAR hosted a performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”, a piece of music that’s been variously classified as avant-garde, modern, 20th century (which used to mean modern), aleatoric and minimalist, and which sparked a revolution in musical hierarchy in 1966 when it was first conceived. I’ve been in love with this ever since I first heard it last fall. I had no idea it’s so widely performed, but it’s super fascinating to play and to hear.